Genesis 26:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

the herders of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herders, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Cross References

Genesis 13:7

Thus strife arose between the herders of Abram’s livestock and the herders of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land.

Genesis 21:25

When Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Genesis 26:19

But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water,

Genesis 26:21

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also, so he called it Sitnah.

Genesis 46:34

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors,’ in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”